The hospital at home

A timely article from the Lens team featuring Dr Miranda Davies-Tuck, NHRMC Early Career Research Fellow in the School of Clinical Sciences, on the growing number of Australian women  choosing to birth at home instead of the hospital.

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Homebirth or hospital birth? New study weighs up the evidence

Dr Miranda Davies-Tuck

Women with healthy, low-risk pregnancies who gave birth at home with a midwife had comparable rates of stillbirth and neonatal death to healthy low-risk women who gave birth in hospital, a new epidemiological study of births in Victoria from 2000-2015 has found.

Publications week ending 7 September 2018

Elective replacement of intravenous cannula in neonates-a randomised trial. Atul Malhotra et al. published in the European Journal of Pediatrics.

Planned private homebirth in Victoria 2000–2015: a retrospective cohort study of Victorian perinatal data. Miranda Davies-Tuck et al. published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.

The NACSTOP trial: A multi‐center, cluster‐controlled trial of early cessation of acetylcysteine in acetaminophen overdose. Anselm Wong et al. published in Hepatology.

Ethnicity, Obesity, and Pregnancy Outcomes on Fetal Programming

Euan Wallace et al. published in Diet, Nutrition, and Fetal Programming.

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Creatine Synthesis in Fetal Growth Restriction and Preeclampsia: Potential Implications for Placental Bioenergetics

Stacey Ellery, Hayley Dickinson et al. published in Placenta.

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Perinatal and Maternal Outcomes After Training Residents in Forceps Before Vacuum Instrumental Birth

Sasha Skinner et al. published in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

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Description of a method for inducing fetal growth restriction in the spiny mouse

Hayley Dickinson et al. published in the Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.

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Perinatal and Maternal Outcomes After Training Residents in Forceps Before Vacuum Instrumental Birth

Sasha Skinner et al. published in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

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Maternal region of birth and stillbirth in Victoria, Australia 2000-2011: A retrospective cohort study of Victorian perinatal data

Miranda Davies-Tuck et al. published in PLoS One.

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Ovine multiparity is associated with diminished vaginal muscularis, increased elastic fibres and vaginal wall weakness: implication for pelvic organ prolapse

Stuart Emmerson et al. published in Scientific Reports.

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Comparison of preterm and term equivalent age MRI for the evaluation of preterm brain injury

Atul Malhotra et al. published in the Journal of Perinatology.

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Creatine biosynthesis and transport by the term human placenta

Hayley Dickinson et al. published in Placenta.

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Maternal Asian ethnicity and obstetric intrapartum intervention: a retrospective cohort study

Miranda Davies-Tuck et al. published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.

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13th Annual Kaarene Fitzgerald Public Forum

Latest research on sudden unexpected infant death was highlighted at the 13^th annual Fitzgerald Public Forum hosted by the Ritchie Centre earlier this month.

Established in 2004, the annual public lecture honours the outstanding contributions Kaarene Fitzgerald made in over 25 years of service to medical research into the unsolved problem of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

“This year we heard talks from three outstanding young women who have focused their research on understanding the factors which contribute to stillbirth and sudden unexpected death in infancy so that we can reduce these unexplained deaths that claim so many young lives,” said Professor Rosemary Horne, Deputy Director of the Ritchie Centre.

NHMRC Early Career Fellow Dr Miranda Davie-Tuck spoke on ‘Setting the placental alarm clock: a way to prevent stillbirth’  while Dr Emily Cohen, a final year PhD student in The Ritchie Centre and the current the Kaarene Fitzgerald Scholarship awardee spoke on ‘Being born too small and too early: effects on the brain and the heart’.

Dr Rita Machaalani, a postdoctoral research fellow from the Department of Medicine and the Bosch Institute, University of Sydney and Department of Paediatrics, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney spoke about smoking risks for SIDS.

Professor Horne said Kaarene was passionate in her belief that research will find a solution for SIDS and that research findings be translated into clinical practise.

Post-term surveillance and birth outcomes in South Asian-born compared with Australian-born women.

Miranda Davies-Tuck et al. published in the Journal of Perinatology.

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Vaginal wall weakness in parous ewes: a potential preclinical model of pelvic organ prolapse

Caroline Gargett et al. published in International Urogynecology Journal.

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Maternal 25-hydroxyvitamin D is inversely correlated with fetal serotonin

Padma Murthi et al. published in Clinical Endocrinology.

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Obesity and pregnancy outcomes: Do the relationships differ by maternal region of birth? A retrospective cohort study.

Miranda Davies-Tuck et al. published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.

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Customised management of the third stage of labour

Miranda Davies-Tuck et al. published in the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

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Maternal creatine in pregnancy: a retrospective cohort study

Hayley Dickinson et al. published in BJOG

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